Three in Virginia Busted Obtaining Drivers Licenses for Hundreds of Illegal Aliens

Noemi Barboza, 42, pleaded guilty to a bribery conspiracy charge, admitting that she often drove illegal immigrants to the Fairfax DMV location where an employee would approve their applications for driver’s licenses, learner’s permits and identification cards knowing they could not prove legal presence in the United States. The applicants paid bribes of few thousand dollars to Barboza’s husband or another person, who split the money with the DMV employee.

The employee, 45-year-old Maria Cavallaro, and Barboza’s husband, 42-year-old Jose Calderon, pleaded guilty to their roles Wednesday, admitting they helped obtain documents for as many as 300 people and netted tens of thousands of dollars for themselves. The other person has not yet been formally charged.

They should spend the rest of their lives in prison, but they won’t. What they did isn’t just illegal, it not only impacts the integrity of our elections, it not only puts people on our roads who should not be, it directly endangers national security.

Some of the 9-11 hijackers obtained their drivers licenses in Virginia DMV offices via fraud facilitated by illegal aliens. They then used those drivers licenses to enter aircraft that they then hijacked, flew into the Pentagon and the Twin Towers, and started the war on terrorism.

Bryan Preston has been a leading conservative blogger and opinionator since founding his first blog in 2001. Bryan is a military veteran, worked for NASA, was a founding blogger and producer at Hot Air, was producer of the Laura Ingraham Show and, most recently before joining PJM, was Communications Director of the Republican Party of Texas.

Preston is right, people who commit acts of corruption and fraud in the service of the US government are perpetrating acts which potentially have very serious, perhaps even lethal , consequences for large numbers of citizens.

We need to get serious about punishing these very serious breaches of the law. In my opinion, it is not unreasonable to demand that malfeasors such as these, face a firing squad, if convicted.